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MANLIO DINUCCI -- NO WAR NO NATO

Friday, September 30, 2016

Pundits have declared a “New Cold War.” If only! The Cold War was a time when leaders focused on reducing tensions between nuclear powers. What we have today is much more dangerous: Washington’s reckless and irresponsible aggression toward the other major nuclear powers, Russia and China.

During my lifetime American presidents worked to defuse tensions with Russia. President John F. Kennedy worked with Khrushchev to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Richard Nixon negotiated SALT I and the anti-ballistic missile treaty, and Nixon opened to Communist China. President Carter negotiated SALT II. Reagan worked with Soviet leader Gorbachev and ended the Cold War. The Berlin Wall came down. Gorbachev was promised that in exchange for the Soviet Union’s agreement to the reunification of Germany, NATO would not move one inch to the East.

Peace was at hand. And then the neoconservatives, rehabilitated by the Israeli influence in the American press, went to work to destroy the peace that Reagan and Gorbachev had achieved. It was a short-lasting peace. Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington’s gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.

Since the advent of the criminal Clinton regime, every American president has worked overtime to raise tensions with Russia and China.

China is confronted with the crazed and criminal Obama regime’s declaration of the “pivot to Asia” and the prospect of the US Navy controlling the sea lanes that provision China.

Russia is even more dangerously threatened with US nuclear missile bases on her border and with US and NATO military bases stretching from the Baltics to the Black Sea.

All local
conflicts of the last decade have one common trait. Regardless of the
geography, national, and religious character of their sides, they all gain
weapons supplied by American forces. This tactic is based on the US’
authorities’ desire to apply their favorite tactic for destabilizing states and
regions: creating controlled chaos. With the help of legal, semi-legal and
criminal methods, they import weapons into the region and then destabilize
socio-political social conditions that lead to the appearance of armed clashes.
Thus, war is started once there is a sufficient number of weapons in the
conflict zone.

Monday night’s debate between Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump plumbed new depths in the degradation of American
politics. A billionaire and a multi-millionaire, both widely hated, traded
false promises, platitudes, attack lines and reactionary bromides without
seriously addressing any of the pressing issues facing the American people.

On social policy, Trump combined
calls for trade war with a program of sweeping corporate tax cuts and the
elimination of all regulations on business, at one point boasting of his own
evasion of federal income taxes. Responding to Clinton’s criticism that he
benefited personally from the housing market collapse, he declared, “That’s called
business.”

Clinton, who has the closest ties to
Wall Street, said the financial crisis of 2008 was the product of “tax policies
that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took
their eyes off Wall Street.” She evidently hoped that no one would pick up on
the fact that her husband’s administration and the Democratic Party as a whole
played a central role in this process.

Introduction: Bombs, domestic and foreign, are defining the nature
of politics in the United States, the European Union and among radical Islamist
groups and individuals. The scale and scope of bomb-politics varies with the
practioner.

‘Wholesale bombers’ are state actors, who engage in
large-scale, long-term bombing designed to destroy adversary governments or
movements. ‘Retail bombers’ are groups or individuals engaging in small-scale,
sporadic bombings, designed to provoked fear and secure symbolic outcomes.

Apart from planned bombings, there are improvised
bombings committed by deranged individuals who engage in suicide attacks
without any political backing or coherent purpose.

In this paper we will focus on the nature of
‘wholesale’ and ‘retail’ bombings, their frequency, political consequences and
long-term impact on global political power.

Never in the history of the United
States, has a President and Supreme Court Judge openly advocated the overthrow
of a Presidential candidate.

Never has the entire mass media engaged in a
round-the-clock one-sided, propaganda war to discredit a Presidential candidate
by systematically ignoring or distorting the central socio-economic issues of
their opposition.

“Many of our interlocutors have been
purged or arrested”.

James Clapper, US Director of Intelligence on Turkish Coup (Financial Times
8/3/16, p. 4)

America’s “Humanitarian War” against the World

The following text is a point by point thematic summary of Prof. Michel Chossudovsky‘s presentation at the Science for Peace Conference, Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur, 15-16 August 2016

Introduction

Historically, science has supported the development of the weapons industry and the war economy. “Science for Peace” indelibly requires reversing the logic whereby commissioned scientific endeavors are directed towards supporting what President Eisenhower called “The Military Industrial Complex”.

What is consequently required is a massive redirection of science and technology towards the pursuit of broad societal objectives. In turn, this requires a major shift in what is euphemistically called “US Foreign Policy”, namely America’s global military agenda.

Military Affairs: The Current Global Context

The world is at a dangerous crossroads. The United States and its allies have launched a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.

Under a global military agenda, the actions undertaken by the Western military alliance (U.S.-NATO-Israel) in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Palestine, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are coordinated at the highest levels of the military hierarchy. We are not dealing with piecemeal military and intelligence operations. Major military and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Asia Pacific region.

The current situation is all the more critical inasmuch as a US-NATO war on Russia, China and Iran is part of the US presidential election debate. It is presented as a political and military option to Western public opinion.

The US-NATO military agenda combines both major theater operations as well as covert actions geared towards destabilizing sovereign states. America’s hegemonic project is to destabilize and destroy countries through acts of war, support of terrorist organizations, regime change and economic warfare.

U.S. and NATO forces have been deployed in Eastern Europe including Poland and Ukraine. In turn, military maneuvers are being conducted at Russia’s doorstep which could potentially lead to confrontation with the Russian Federation.

The U.S. and its allies are also threatening China under President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”.

The U.S. led airstrikes initiated in August 2014 directed against Iraq and Syria under the pretext of going after the Islamic State are part of a scenario of military escalation extending from North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to Central and South Asia.

News the US Ambassador to
Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was replaced by Marie Yovanovitch was initially
uplifting for half of the world. Then it was tentatively announced that
President Obama suited career diplomat up to take over in Greece. The man
overheard organizing “post coup” Ukraine government with Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victorian Nuland, will no doubt head up
Athens’ next civil war.

What makes matters even worse
is the fact Yovanovitch has hit the ground running in Kiev, rekindling the
anti-Russia blame game Pyatt helped get started. If putting mediocrity in
places surrounding Russia were not bad enough, guess who is rumored to be
Hillary Clinton’s “Girl Friday” at the US State Department is she is elected.
Yes, F___ the EU Russophobe Nuland. The scary thing about all these postings
for me, is the level of arrogance, illiteracy, and downright incompetence
Washington sends to represent the American People. “Delusional” is the only
word that comes to mind to describe Geoffrey Pyatt, who told Radio Free Europe
the other day:

“The United States had played
an important role in helping the Ukrainian people to take control once again of
their own democracy.”

It’s the timing that should amaze us (were anyone to think about it for 30 seconds). Let’s start with the conflict in Afghanistan, now regularly described as the longest war in American history. It began on October 7, 2001, and will soon reach its 15th “anniversary.” Think of it as the stepchild of America’s first Afghan War (against the Soviets), a largely CIA affair which lasted from 1979 to 1989. Considered a major victory, leading as it did to the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, it also devastated Afghanistan and created close to the full cast of characters for America’s second Afghan War. In reality, you could say that Washington has conducted a quarter-century-plus of warfare there (with a decade off). And in the Pentagon, they’re already talking about that war's possible extensionwell into the 2020s.

And then, of course, there’s Iraq. Where even to begin to count? You could start perhaps with the military aid and assistance that Washington gave Saddam Hussein in the eight-year war that followed his invasion of Iran in 1980, including crucial information that the Iraqis could use to target Iranian troops with their chemical weapons. Or you could start with that victory of all victories, the first Gulf War of 1991, in which the U.S. military crushed Saddam’s troops in Kuwait, showed off the snazzy techno-abilities of the mightiest force on the planet... and er, um... somehow didn’t unseat the Iraqi ruler, leading to years of no-fly-zone air war until that second, ultimate victory, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which led to... er, um... a disastrous occupation, various insurgencies, and finally the withdrawal of American forces in 2011 before... er, um... the Islamic State emerged triumphantly to smash the American-trained Iraqi army, taking over major cities, and establishing its “caliphate.” That, of course, led to America’s third Iraq War (or is it the fourth?), still ongoing. In other words, at least a quarter-century of conflict and possibly more with no end in sight.

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